Home Group Questions Week Five

# DISCUSSION
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**This Sunday, we talked about how the doctrine of the incarnation (Jesus being fully God and fully human) helps us process suffering. Pastor Josh said that “there is no healing, and no suffering, that Christ is not IN”.**
- Have you ever imagined or experienced Jesus co-suffering with you?
- Why is it important to see Jesus as co-suffering with us?
- How can we participate in co-suffering with others as Jesus does with us?
- What are some reasons we resist mourning with people?
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**Have you experienced anyone giving you an “answer” for your suffering that has been wounding?**
- How can an answer for someone’s suffering be damaging?
- How can we get healing for that damage?
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**Take a couple minutes to review Pastor Landen’s “Prayer, Praise, Push” section of the notes in the app**
- What area do you find comes easier, and which area do you find most difficult, and why?
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**We’ve talked much about the “kingdom now, and not yet” tension. Have you found it harder to see Jesus as your healer or as the one meeting you in your suffering?**
- Why is important for us to understand and actively engage both truths?
- 1 Corinthians 13:7 says - Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
- Why is it important to learn to co-suffer with others (“bear all things”) AND continue to pray for healing (“believe all things”)?
- How does walking together in a community of believers help us pursue both?
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# ACTIVATION
Does anyone have a testimony of a healing or a miracle to share?
Does anyone have a burden that can be shared today?
Does anyone have a need for healing that can be prayed for today?